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[[Centuries]]: [[Year in Review 20th Century]] ([[19th century]] - '''[[20th century]]''' - [[21st century]])
'''Charlie Chaplin''' (1889 - 1977) was the most famous [[actor]] in early [[Hollywood]] [[cinema]]. His principal character was "The Tramp"--a lower class character with a tight coat, oversized pants and shoes, a derby hat, a wooden cane, and his signature square mustache.


[[Decades]]: [[1920s]] [[1930s]] [[1940s]] [[1950s]] [[1960s]] - '''[[1970s]]''' - [[1980s]] [[1990s]] [[2000s]]
Chaplin was one of the most creative personalities in the [[silent film]] era. He directed, acted, wrote his stories, and was even known to write his movie scores.


Years: [[1972]] [[1973]] [[1974]] [[1975]] [[1976]] - '''1977''' - [[1978]] [[1979]] [[1980]] [[1981]] [[1982]]
His salary history suggests how rapidly he became world famous.
1914: Keystone, worked for $150 a week


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1914-15: Essanay, $1250 a week, plus $10,000 signing bonus


1916-17: Mutual, $10,000 a week, plus $150,000 signing bonus


'''Events:'''
1917: First National, a million dollar deal -- the first actor ever with such a high price tag.
*[[January 1]] - First woman Episcopal priest ordained
*[[January 18]] - Scientists identify a previously unknown [[bacterium]] as the cause of the mysterious "[[legionnaires disease|legionnaire's disease]]."
*[[Jimmy Carter]] succeeds [[Gerald R. Ford]] as [[President of the United States of America]]
*Australia experiences its worst railway disaster at [[Granville]], near [[Sydney]], in which 83 people died.
*[[January 21]] - President [[Jimmy Carter]] pardons [[Vietnam War]] draft evaders.
*[[February 11]] - A 20.2-kg lobster is caught off [[Nova Scotia]] (heaviest known [[crustacean]]).
*[[May 23]] - Scientists report using bacteria in lab to make [[insulin]].
*[[June 20]] - The [[United States Supreme Court]] rules that states are not required to spend [[Medicaid]] funds on elective abortions.
*[[July 13]] - An electricity [[blackout]] hits the [[City of New York]], lasting for 25 hours and resulting in looting and other disorder
*[[July 22]] - the purged [[China|Chinese]] leader [[Deng Xiaoping]] is restored to power as the "Gang of Four" is expelled from the Communist Party.
*[[September 7]] - The [[Panama Canal]] treaties are signed.
*[[September 11]] - The last "wild" infection of smallpox is reported in [[Somalia]].
*A collection of work by [[JRR Tolkien]], [[The Silmarillion]], is published posthumously by his son [[Christopher Tolkien|Christopher]].
*[[September 21]] - Nuclear-proliferation pact, curbing spread of [[nuclear weapon]]s, is signed by 15 countries including the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
*Swedish music group [[ABBA]] passes [[The Beatles]] as having most records sold.


'''Births:'''
*[[February 11]] - [[Jessica Carlson]], US archer.
*[[February 11]] - [[Stephanie Richardson]], Canadian swimmer.


'''Deaths:'''
*[[February 11]] - [[Louis J M Beel]], Dutch premier ([[1946]]-[[1948]], [[1958]]-[[1959]]).
*[[July 2]] - [[Vladimir Nabokov]], writer
*[[August 16]] - [[Elvis Presley]], singer, actor
*[[September 12]] - [[South Africa]]n activist [[Stephen Biko]] dies in police custody.
*[[October 14]] - [[Bing Crosby]], American singer and actor

'''Films:'''

*The science fiction saga, [[Star Wars]], later renamed to ''Star Wars: Episode IV - [A New Hope]'', makes its first outing to the cinema and makes [[George Lucas]] and the team at [[LucasArts]] a staggering [[top grossing movies|$461 million]].
*[[John Travolta]] [[Disco|discoed]] in ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]''
*In the [[Academy Awards]], [[Peter Finch]], [[Faye Dunaway]] and [[Beatrice Straight]] win [[Academy Awards/Best Actor|Best Actor]] and [[Academy Awards/Best Actress|Actress]] and [[Academy Awards/Best Supporting Actress|Supporting Actress]] awards for [[Network]].
*[[Rocky]] picks up a [[Academy Awards/Best Picture|Best Picture]] and [[All The Presidents Men|All The President's Men]] wins [[Jason Robards]] the [[Academy Awards/Best Supporting Actor|Supporting Actor]] and an [[Academy Awards/Art Direction|Art Direction]] for George Jenkins and George Gaines.

'''Music:'''

*[[February 4]] - [[Fleetwood Mac]]'s album Rumour's released. It eventually hits #1 and becomes one of the all-time best selling albums (it was the best selling album by a individual artist until 1983, when [[Michael Jackson]]'s Thriller would top it).
*[[May 27]] - The [[Sex Pistols]]' single "God Save The Queen" is released
*[[July 22]] - [[Elvis Costello]] releases his first album, ''[[My aim is true]]'', in the UK.
*[[August 16]] - [[Elvis Presley]] dies.
*[[October 20]] - A plane carrying [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] crashes in Mississippi, killing several band members, including lead singer/guitarist Ronnie Van Zandt

'''Sport:'''

*Baseball - New York Yankees defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers. This is the World Series in which [[Reggie Jackson]] becomes known as Mr. October.
*[[NASCAR Championship]] - [[Cale Yarborough]] wins this years event, beating [[Richard Petty]] into second place with a very respectable 386 point lead.
*[[January 9]] - [[Super Bowl XI]] [[Oakland Raiders]] (32) def. [[Minnesota Vikings]] (14)


'''[[Nobel Prize|Nobel Prizes]]:'''
*[[Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics]][[Philip Warren Anderson]], [[Sir Nevill Francis Mott]], [[John Hasbrouck van Vleck]]
*[[Nobel Prize/Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Ilya Prigogine]]
*[[Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Medicine]] - [[Roger Guillemin]], [[Andrew V Schally]], [[Rosalyn Yalow]]
*[[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Vicente Aleixandre]]
*[[Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace]] - [[Amnesty International]]
*[[Nobel Prize/Economics|Economics]] - [[Bertil Ohlin]], [[James Meade]]


1919: Founded United Artists with [[Mary Pickford]], [[Douglas Fairbanks]] and [[David Griffith]]


Although "talkies" (movies with sound) became the dominant mode of moviemaking soon after they were introduced in 1927, Chaplin resisted making a talkie all through the 1930's.


His first sound picture, "The Great Dictator" (1940)was a brave act of defiance against Adolf Hitler and facists everywhere. Chaplin played a fascist dictator, clearly modeled on Hitler; Chaplin also played a Jewish barber cruelly persecuted by the fascists.


Although Chaplin had his major successes in the [[United States]] he was born in [[Britain]] and retained his [[British]] nationality. During the era of [[McCarthyism]], Chaplin was accused of "[[Un-American activities]]", and as a result had his residency rights removed.


In 1952, he left the [[United States]] and remained a political exile until 1972, when he returned briefly for an award ceremony.


Charlie Chaplin died in 1977.

Revision as of 22:11, 26 January 2002

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 - 1977 - 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982


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